VV-M-19, Vega de la Veranada (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (36.2° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pressulus ammonoid zone, La Manga Formation, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Correlated with Cordatum standard zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Prof. Dr. Juna A. Olsacher", Zapala, Neuquen, Argentina (MOZ-PI).

Primary reference: H. Parent and A. C. Garrido. 2015. The ammonite fauna of the La Manga Formation (Late Callovian-Early Oxfordian) of Vega de la Veranada, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275(2):163-217 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171549: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Peltoceratoides pressulus Leanza 1947 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Cubasphinctes herreroduclouxi Leanza 1947 ammonite
? Subvinalesphinctes "sp. A" Wierzbowski 1976 ammonite